US: Fortera and Mississippi Lime Company (MLC) have signed an agreement to develop a commercial facility that will produce more than 300,000t/yr of the company’s low-carbon ReAct cement product. Fortera's ReCarb technology will capture CO₂ emissions from MLC's production of high-calcium lime, converting the CO₂ directly into cement.
"This partnership gives us the opportunity to scale our production to meet demand that already exists," said Ryan Gilliam, CEO and co-founder of Fortera. "We are excited to work with and learn from MLC."
MLC operates one of the largest lime production facilities in the Americas, supported by a network of production and distribution facilities across the US and UK. The companies plan to share additional details about the project in the coming months.
"Lime and cement are chemically similar businesses, and we've spent over a century perfecting our end of that process," said Paul Hogan, CEO of MLC. "Partnering with Fortera lets us put that expertise to work in a new market and gives us a real path to help decarbonise a hard-to-abate industry."